Trails
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Cactus To Clouds Trail Familiarization
Planning on attacking Southern California's mother of endurance hikes? Try getting a taste first to help better prepare.
Planning on attacking Southern California's mother of endurance hikes? Try getting a taste first to help better prepare.
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9.7 mi/
15.6 km
15.6 km
Mount San Jacinto State Park
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San Jacinto Peak via Marion Mountain
"The view from San Jacinto is the most sublime spectacle to be found anywhere on this earth!” - John Muir
"The view from San Jacinto is the most sublime spectacle to be found anywhere on this earth!” - John Muir
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11.8 mi/
19.0 km
19.0 km
Guides
"The view from San Jacinto is the most sublime spectacle to be found anywhere on this earth!” - John Muir
Planning on attacking Southern California's mother of endurance hikes? Try getting a taste first to help better prepare.
Art, design, and tee times in a stylish desert city.
Community Trips
from the Living Desert Zoo & Gardens:The Living Desert Nature Preserve consists of 1,080 sonoran desert
acres situated just above the zoo. From The Living Desert, a hiker can
select one of three trails to suit their desired experience of the real
undisturbed desert. The nature trails take you through various Sonoran
Desert biological communities and habitats including desert riparian
woodland with smoketree, palo verde and desert willow, and desert scrub...
One of the most popular trails among local cardio-enthusiasts, the
Mirage Trail (also known as the "Bump-n-Grind" trail, the "Desert Drive
Trail", the "Patton Trail", and the "Desert Mirage Trail") begins
with it's trail-head along Highway 111 on the border of Rancho Mirage
and Palm Desert. There are a few start points for this trail. Books
will tell you that you should access it via Painters Path (behind Target
in Palm...
Opened in 2006 as a connector trail to the Art Smith and Bump and Grind trails, the Hopalong Cassidy trail (named for famed American movie and television cowboy icon of the same name), is one of my favorite 1/2 day hikes of the Lower Santa Rosa complex. It features a lot of variety, beginning with the short meadow trek to the trailhead. To get there, drive south on Highway 74 from Palm...
absolutely perfect day to hike the most beautiful mountain top in southern california. we had the summit and the hut all to ourselves for awhile which is amazing in itself. took our sweet time and many photos of all the unparalleled views. incredible feeling of love flowing all around while up there! 10 stars!
A nice 7.2-mile loop consisting of the Mirage (a.k.a. "Bump-n-Grind"),
Herb Jeffries, & Mike Schuler Trails. Because most of these trails are so short, I thought it best to create some loops for people visiting to venture upon. This loop allows you access to every north-end trail in the Palm Desert San Jacinto area.You will begin at the trail-head for the Mirage Trail and work your way to the top. Then back...
A lovely hike up the Fobes Trail, meeting the Pacific Crest Trail
and then down the Cedar Spring Trail. This was the day before the
Desert Divide’s first snowfall of the year. It was upper 50’s to low
60’s, lightly breezy and full of late fall colors. This hike is a
perfect day hike for shorter daylight in the late fall or early spring.
The difficulty of the...
Red Shank Riders members working on the Cabin Spring Trail in the Beauty Mountain Wilderness.
This hike is rated 5th hardest day hike in US by Outside Mag for good reason...the first 10 miles you climb 8500ft to get to the tram, this is called Skyline Trail which is definitely the most difficult part of the C2C. You start out at the Desert Museum, TH just behind, park your car on street or in parking lot. The beginning of the hike is in "cactus" and it ends...
Do not try this trip without someone who has done it before. Even with GPS coordinates.TRIP REPORT
This trail is a connecter trail between the Mirage Trail (N.W. end) and the Hopalong Cassidy Trail (S.E. end). Although I did not map it, the trail actually extends a bit further to the S.E. looking down on Edgehill Dr. below and Fox Canyon to the south.This trail is a tribute to the legendary “Bronze Buckaroo”, Herb
Jeffries, a film star and recording artist who, in the era of popular
western movies,...
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